Armenia
CLASSIFICATION
11th edition – multiclass application
SEARCH
Possible for word and device marks
EXAMINATION
On formal, absolute, and relative grounds
OPPOSITION
2 months from publication date
PROTECTION TERM
10 years from filing date and renewable for like periods
USE
Vulnerable to cancellation if mark has not been used for 5 years from filingPossible for responding to office actions
Filing Requirements
Simply signed POA required for all of the below procedures
Filing Requirements
- Copy of priority document, if priority is claimed, certified
What you need to know
- POA must be submitted at the time of filing
- Priority document may be submitted within 3 months from filing date
Filing Requirements
- No additional documents are required
What you need to know
- Grace period of 6 months
Filing Requirements
- Certificate of change of name/address, notarized
What you need to know
- May be recorded for applications and registrations
Filing Requirements
- Deed of assignment, simply signed
What you need to know
- Trademarks may be assigned with or without the goodwill of the business concerned
- May be recorded for applications and registrations
Filing Requirements
- Certificate of merger, notarized
What you need to know
- May be recorded for applications and registrations
Filing Requirements
- License agreement, notarized
What you need to know
- May be recorded for registrations only
- License recordal is compulsory in order to be effective against third parties
EQUIVALENT SEARCH
No provisions
EXAMINATION
On formal and substantive grounds
PUBLICATIONS
No provisions
OPPOSITION
No provisions
ANNUITIES
Due annually on the anniversary of the grant
PROTECTION TERM
20 years from the international filing dateFiling Requirements
Simply signed POA required for all of the below procedures
Filing Requirements
- Copy of the specifications, claims, and abstracts with Armenian translation
- 1 set of drawings and the abstract
- Copy of priority document, if priority is claimed, certified
What you need to know
- Priority document must be submitted within 3 months from filing date
Filing Requirements
- Certificate of change of name/address, notarized
What you need to know
- Documents must be accompanied with an English translation if made in a foreign language
- Documents must be translated into Armenian upon submission
Filing Requirements
- Deed of assignment, notarized
What you need to know
- Documents must be accompanied with an English translation if made in a foreign language
- Documents must be translated into Armenian upon submission
- Separate POAs are required from the assignee and assignor
Filing Requirements
- Certificate of merger, notarized
What you need to know
- Documents must be accompanied with an English translation if made in a foreign language
- Documents must be translated into Armenian upon submission
Filing Requirements
- License agreement, notarized
What you need to know
- Documents must be accompanied with an English translation if made in a foreign language
- Documents must be translated into Armenian upon submission
World Intellectual Property Organization, World Trade Organization, Eurasian Patent Organization, Hague Agreement, Locarno Agreement, Strasbourg Agreement, Budapest Treaty, Nice Agreement, Vienna Agreement, WIPO Copyright Treaty, WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, Phonograms Convention, Rome Convention, Berne Convention, Madrid Protocol, Brussels Convention, WIPO Convention, Madrid Agreement (Marks), Paris Convention, Patent Cooperation Treaty, Apostille Convention, Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks
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